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The last hours of Round 2

Picture this, New Years Eve, bloody hot day (38 Degress Celsius). We were spending the weekend with my parents at the ‘Milk Bar’ they were now running in Bendigo (about 200 Kilometers from my house).

I had made a promise to take my wife and our two kids out for the day to enjoy a refreshingly cool swim at the local swimming pool. Not a problem, the game was due to finish at 7pm, plenty of time to have a family outing and to get back home.

Wrong! Child #1 (3 years & 3weeks old) refused to go down for his nap at the normal time… by the time he had woken up and was ready to go out, it was already 3pm. We finally made it to the local swimming pool, where I kept a very watchful eye on the clock. By 5:30pm we were all looking a bit pruney (and very refreshed), so we headed back to my parents house.

That was when I started to get worried. As we got closer to home, I was noticing more and more traffic lights were not working. My suspicions were confirmed when we got home, the power was out for half of the town! My father had already spoken to the power company, and they had assured him that power would be restored at 8pm.

No power, no ADSL! I had my laptop with me, which meant I could use dial-up to get onto the internet. Except that would mean I’d be tying up the phone line for the business, besides which my laptop had developed a fault a few weeks ago in the LCD screen. I would need to use an external monitor…

Lucky for me, my sister also lives in Bendigo, and she just happens to live on the side of town unaffected by the power outage!
So I quickly race over there, and manage to get all my ships logged on by 6:45pm… cutting it very close!

Imagine my suprise to find that one of my ships was now the #1 ranked ship!
A couple of unsavoury players (you know the ones, no morales, ethics is a dirty word, etc) had taken it upon themselves to attack the ships parked in the designated ‘screenshot’ sector.

Which leads to the following game log… only a couple of ships left logged on…